Queerlective Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
883631771
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2023–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
Manchester, NH, USA
Rating
84
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Arts Council/Agency

Reported finances

Revenue
$119,102
Expenses
$131,679
Assets
$25,712
Liabilities
$16,194

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

6 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Randall Nielsen (President and Executive Director)

People named in this filing

  • Randall Nielsen (President and Executive Director)
  • Ash Wheeler (Board Member)
  • Taylor Brown (Treasurer)

Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Queerlective provides community-centered arts educational and resilience-building programs that serve communities across New Hampshire. The organization operates a collaborative community arts space called CoLab which offers accessible creative resources workshops exhibitions mutual aid activities advocacy gatherings and opportunities for local artists and organizers to connect and lead community programming. Key activities during the year included hosting community art workshops and markets facilitating storytelling and zine-making programs supporting local artists through retail and exhibition opportunities organizing civic engagement and advocacy events and developing collaborative storytelling projects focused on social determinants of health and lived experiences within marginalized communities.

What it reported doing in 2025

Public Arts Events Program Services Provided: Queerlective organized and supported public arts and community events that brought together artists performers organizers and community members to celebrate creativity connection and diversity. Events included art markets exhibitions Pride-related programming live performances collaborative art activities and community gatherings. Persons Benefited: Program events collectively engaged an estimated 6,000 participants and attendees throughout the year increasing public access to community arts programming and creating opportunities for local artists performers and small vendors to showcase their work. Other Relevant Information: The program strengthened partnerships with local businesses artists advocacy groups and community organizations across New Hampshire while expanding opportunities for accessible community-centered arts programming and public engagement.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 96% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.

The verdict

STRONG - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 77
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 13
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 79.8%; rating input score 80
  • Program expense ratio: 72.1%; rating input score 72

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -10.6%; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.2; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.63; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 43.4%; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 69.8% per year; rating input score 100; 94th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 47.4% per year; rating input score 100; 95th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 104.3% per year; rating input score 100; 98th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 79.8% of revenue deployed · 72.1% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $95K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
  • Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 3 filing years from 2023 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
  • Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
  • Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
  • People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 13/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 19/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 7/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 7/100.